
The Empress
A Novel
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Yareli Arizmendi
From a bestselling author in Mexico comes her English-language debut - an enthralling historical novel about the tragic reign of Empress Carlota of Mexico.
It’s 1863. Napoleon III has installed a foreign monarch in Mexico to squash the current regime. Maximilian von Habsburg of Austria accepts the emperor’s crown. But it is his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Princess Charlotte, who throws herself passionately into the role. Known to the people as Empress Carlota, she rules deftly from behind the scenes while her husband contents himself with philandering and decorating the palace.
But Carlota bears a guilty secret. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she’s thrown herself into a reckless affair. Desire has blinded Carlota to its consequences, for it has left her vulnerable to her sole trusted confidante. Carlota’s devious lady-in-waiting has political beliefs of her own - and they are strong enough to cause her to betray the empress and join a plot to depose her from the throne. As Carlota grows increasingly, maddeningly defenseless, both her own fate and that of the empire are at stake.
A sweeping historical novel of forbidden love, dangerous secrets, courtly intrigue, and treachery, The Empress passionately reimagines the tragic romance and ill-fated reign of the most unforgettable royal couple of nineteenth-century Europe during the last throes of the Second Empire.
©2017 by Laura Martínez-Belli. Translation © 2020 by Simon Bruni. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Beautiful! Eloquent! Human!
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Nice fiction-reality story
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Excelente
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Listening to The Empress
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Such a tragic end to so many and the lives they endure and such a love Carlota had for Mexico 🇲🇽
Fusion of history and imagination at its best
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Captivating historical novel!
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If I were to read this book again, I would want a hard copy of the book so I could flip back and forth and make a continuous line. I'm a linear thinker anyway so things make more sense to me if they flow from one event to the next.
Having said all that, I'm glad I read this book and I am grateful for all the time, effort and research it took so that I could learn more abour historical figures and how they effected the world both then and now. If you are a fan of history, as I am, you will learn many interesting facts about european politics, monarchs, mexican history and the desire for freedom balanced against an aristocracy that wanted power and growth across the world.
The Empress of Mexico
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Boring and unnecessarily complicated time line
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The character names were also kept in the Spanish language so it was difficult for me to remember who was who except for the two main characters.
Overall I felt the story was long with the author not really telling much of a story.
Confusing listen
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